Baha’i
Neha Srinivasan
Arthur Schuertzmann
Concept of God
• Only one God, who is the creator of all beings
• Humanity is a special, unique creation
• God reveals his will through Divine Messengers
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Basic Beliefs
• All of the Messengers came from God, and so all
of their respective religious systems are part of a
single divine plan created by God
• 3 core principles: unity of God, religion,
humankind
http://immaculateheart98.wo
rdpress.com/2010/07/04/is
-jesus-christ-god/
http://media.photobucket.com/i
mage/moses+/mattukenobaka/
motivation/moses-mosesmountain-lol-demotivati.jpg
http://clouddragon.wo
rdpress.com/2010/04/
23/depicting-theprophet-mohammed/
http://www.hindudevotionalbl
og.com/2010/06/inspirational
-quotes-by-lord-buddha.html
Sacred Texts
• Writings of the Bab, Baha’u’llah
• Abdul Bahá, Shoghi Effendi
• Universal House of Justice
http://books.bahai.us/glean
ings-from-the-writings-ofbahaullah
http://bahaikipedia.org/Selected_Wr
itings_of_Bah%C3%A1%E2%80%9
9u%E2%80%99ll%C3%A1h
View of the Afterlife
• Everyone has a soul, connected to physical body
• Souls develop important qualities in physical world
(needed for afterlife)
• Heaven = nearness to God
• Hell = distance from God
http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptafterlife.html
Rules
• Praying mandatory
– “I bear witness, O my God, that Thou has created me to
know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this
moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my
poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but
Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.”
• Drugs, alcohol forbidden
• Marriage highly valued
• No active participation in politics
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Appeal of Baha’i
• Believe in one united world
• Accept all faiths/people
http://www.franksinger.com/cd
001/owt_unity.htm
Works Cited
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Just the Facts on the World's Religions. Web. 07 Nov. 2011.
<http://www.religionfacts.com/bahai/beliefs/afterlife.htm>.
The Baha'i Faith - The International Website of the Baha'is of the World. Office of Public Information
of the Baha'i International Community. Web. 10 Nov. 2011. <http://bahai.org>.
Breuilly, Elizabeth, Joanne O'Brien, and Martin Palmer. Religions of the World: The Illustrated Guide to
Origins, Beliefs, Traditions, & Festivals. New York: Facts on File, 1997. Print.
"The Shrine of Baha'u'llah - Acre, Israel." Bahai.org. Web. 10 Nov. 2011.
<http://news.bahai.org/documentlibrary/643/ShrineOfBahaullah.pdf>.
Wikipedia. Wikimedia and Mediawiki, 5 Nov. 2011. Web. 11 Nov. 2011.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1'%C3%AD_Faith>.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=18738325 (picture of Lotus Temple)